STRENGTH IN HER HAIR.

GIRL PIANIST DREADS THE FATE

OF SAMSON

'. -. • EOND.ON, June 8. One; o£«iUve<mosb'»remarlcable girl pian-< jsts thafc^ jvas .^.ver .ii\ this country mad© her bow to the British public on Monday night at the Albert Hall. She is'Fraiilien Gyarfas-, the .thirteen-year-old-daughter of a -Budapest la\yy,ejr,' who possesses not onl^.. the .fine techr ; niqiK> jb'efitting a favorite pupil qf Proifessor Hifbay, the teacher of Yecsey, but also has the strong', firni, powerful reson ( ant toitcli of. a musician twice her age. Her marvellously strong execution, jwhich ||as excited the admiring bewildermehto'f masters all over the Continent, .the girl'attributes to one thing, and one ■only— her extraordinary wealth of rich chestnut hair which, stretches almost down £o her heels.*

"I am always going about m dread of Uhe fate of ■ Samson,' she. confided to a ipress yesterday. " | Unlike the usual attenuated musical prodigy, , Fraulien Gyarfaa is a jjlump, well- developed, brown-eyed little maid who 'looks the very picture of health. ■ . .'"The. great- change m my playing," she ;said, '^occurred about ..two, years ago r I t then .left ( my. home, and' the iHerr Professor for a six months' visit ,to Berlin aiid Vienna^ ■' *■"■ : - ' ■ '•

I returned my hair had grown so rapidly that it was at least a foot and. a . haj^ , longer tlian it was 'when l.left I had noticed with, growirig' .Avonder that the'strehgtli of niyarm iri-i creased with every inch my: hair grew m length.. , ; ; . „ .., . „ j "So'^-bu, may. judge my fright r in Vie.niia wjien we hear,^ about & wicked man goirijg about cutting ' little girls' hair off' with & palir- of ' scissors. ■•■;. I< used to ,wear my hair down my back jn t\yo long' plaits at that time,' and- one day bp^h. mother and myself were followed m the Prater by 'a horiHd-Took'irig' .man. ' " • ■"I th6tight '' he Hvas. ~goiqg' to' cut my hair off . : If ' l\e did. I , : k;ne\V' I coujld never play as sU-pngly, again. . ''Since 'then, when' out. .walking, I have' 'always 'worn' iriy Hair done up Gretoh'en style, on the top I 'of myJ head: "When I Came back ,to tlie Herr Pror fessor at Budapest he exclaim&d aloud^ at the change' in' my playing, 'You played before; like a* little* angel,"' he kindly said, 1 "but you play now like an angel woman.'" , •", .'. •'. ■ ■■, .Erauleia ; GyarW m. .. w^ose career C^)unt", j^bert Mensdorff,' the AustroHiingarian 'Ambassador m London, is takirig a .lively 1 interest,' regards her tresses wifch almost supersti:, tioiis reverence, , „ ,; • Her e^ntiie time when,"she.,is not nractisiripf, is .occupied with combing hertiair, which Ahe will allow ho, one,' Except her mother;, 'even .to touch. -- ; -....-; ; l